This one must have been made right after the company Christmas party.
Steve
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Probably the same time period as the upside down hoppers then? 
or a Monday morning bridge....
I sure would have thought that the lettering would have been all one tool or stamp to where that wouldn't even be possible. Thanks for sharing
J White
j white posted:I sure would have thought that the lettering would have been all one tool or stamp to where that wouldn't even be possible. Thanks for sharing
J White
Not a stamp: these Marx bridges were decorated with water-slide decals. "Northern" is not reversed, it is flipped top to bottom. The decal may have been applied correctly, then rubbed up against something before the decal dried. Water-slide decals have a glue or adhesive activated by the water that makes them stick to the surface they are applied to when they dry; so in this case the glue would have dried on the face of the decal away from the bridge, it's a bit surprising the decal is still there at all.
hojack posted:j white posted:I sure would have thought that the lettering would have been all one tool or stamp to where that wouldn't even be possible. Thanks for sharing
J White
Not a stamp: these Marx bridges were decorated with water-slide decals. "Northern" is not reversed, it is flipped top to bottom. The decal may have been applied correctly, then rubbed up against something before the decal dried. Water-slide decals have a glue or adhesive activated by the water that makes them stick to the surface they are applied to when they dry; so in this case the glue would have dried on the face of the decal away from the bridge, it's a bit surprising the decal is still there at all.
Some very early versions were stamped, only seen a couple, always the black PRR as far as what I've seen to date..
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Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:Some very early versions were stamped, only seen a couple, always the black PRR as far as what I've seen to date..Steve
That's different! I can see why they went to the decals. No chance of getting that flipped mirror-image though!
